A video is being shared on Social Media and published on various ‘Alternative Media’ websites over the last few days, that claims to show a naked male, wearing one sock, abseiling from an upper window of Buckingham Palace before appearing to fall and subsequently disappear from view.

Really?

Will the images below help at all?

Even if you choose to ignore the extra pillars between the windows in the video, and the fact that the actual windows on the upper level of Buckingham Palace are different – the chances of this being anything other than a complete hoax are incalculately small.

President José Mujica of Uruguay, a 78-year-old former Marxist guerrilla who spent 14 years in prison, mostly in solitary confinement, visited the United States in 2014 to meet with President Obama and speak at a variety of venues.

He told Obama that Americans should smoke less and learn more languages.

He lectured a roomful of businessmen at the US Chamber of Commerce about the benefits of redistributing wealth and raising workers’ salaries. He told students at American University that there are no “just wars.”

Whatever the audience, he spoke extemporaneously and with such brutal honesty that it was hard not to love the guy.

He lives simply and rejects the perks of the presidency. Mujica has refused to live at the Presidential Palace or have a motorcade. He lives in a one-bedroom house on his wife’s farm and drives a 1987 Volkswagen. “There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress,” said Mujica, referring to his time in prison. He donates over 90% of his $12,000/month salary to charity so he makes the same as the average citizen in Uruguay. When called “the poorest president in the world,” Mujica says he is not poor. “A poor person is not someone who has little but one who needs infinitely more, and more and more. I don’t live in poverty, I live in simplicity. There’s very little that I need to live.”

He supported the nation’s groundbreaking legalisation of marijuana. “In no part of the world has repression of drug consumption brought results. It’s time to try something different,” Mujica said. So in 2014, Uruguay became the first country in the world to regulate the legal production, sale, and consumption of marijuana. The law allows individuals to grow a certain amount each year and the government controls the price of marijuana sold at pharmacies. The law requires consumers, sellers, and distributors to be licensed by the government. Uruguay’s experience aims to take the market away from the ruthless drug traffickers and treat drug addiction as a public health issue. Their experiment will have reverberations worldwide.

In August 2013, Mujica signed the bill making Uruguay the second nation in Latin America (after Argentina) to legalise gay marriage. He said that legalizing gay marriage is simply recognizing reality. “Not to legalise it would be unnecessary torture for some people,” he said. In recent years, Uruguay has also moved to allow adoption by gay couples and openly gay people to serve in the armed forces.

He’s not afraid to confront corporate abuses, as evidenced by the epic struggle his government is waging against the American tobacco giant Philip Morris. A former smoker, Mujica says that tobacco is a killer that needs to be brought under control. But Philip Morris is suing Uruguay for $25 million at the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes because of the country’s tough smoking laws that prohibit smoking in enclosed public spaces and require warning labels, including graphic images of the health effects. Uruguay is the first Latin American country and the fifth nation worldwide to implement a ban on smoking in enclosed public places. Philip Morris, the largest cigarette manufacturer in the United States, has huge global business interests (and a well-paid army of lawyers). Uruguay’s battle against the tobacco Goliath will also have global repercussions.

He supported the legalisation of abortion in Uruguay (his predecessor had vetoed the bill). The law is very limited, compared to laws in the US and Europe. It allows abortions within the first 12 weeks of the pregnancy and requires women to meet with a panel of doctors and social workers on the risks and possible effects of an abortion. But this law is the most liberal abortion law in socially conservative, Catholic Latin America and is clearly a step in the right direction for women’s reproductive rights.

He’s an environmentalist trying to limit needless consumption. At the Rio+20 Summit in 2012, he criticized the model of development pushed by affluent societies. “We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means – by being prudent – the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction,” he said. He also recently rejected a joint energy project with Brazil that would have provided his country with cheap coal energy because of his concern for the environment.

He has focused on redistributing his nation’s wealth, claiming that his administration has reduced poverty from 37% to 11%. “Businesses just want to increase their profits; it’s up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the money to buy the goods they produce,” he told businessmen at the US Chamber of Commerce. “It’s no mystery–the less poverty, the more commerce. The most important investment we can make is in human resources.” His government’s redistributive policies include setting prices for essential commodities such as milk and providing free computers and education for every child.

He has offered to take detainees cleared for release from Guantanamo. Mujica has called the detention center at Guantanamo Bay a “disgrace” and insisted that Uruguay take responsibility to help close the facility. The proposal is unpopular in Uruguay, but Mujica, who was a political prisoner for 14 years, said he is “doing this for humanity.”

He is opposed to war and militarism. “The world spends $2 billion a minute on military spending,” he exclaimed in horror to the students at American University. “I used to think there were just, noble wars, but I don’t think that anymore,” said the former armed guerrilla. “Now I think the only solution is negotiations. The worst negotiation is better than the best war, and the only way to insure peace is to cultivate tolerance.”

He has an adorable three-legged dog, Manuela. Manuela lost a foot when Mujica accidentally ran over it with a tractor. Since then, Mujica and Manuela have been almost inseparable.

Mujica’s influence goes far beyond that of the leader of a tiny country of only 3 million people. In a world hungry for alternatives, the innovations that he and his colleagues are championing have put Uruguay on the map as one of the world’s most exciting experiments in creative, progressive governance.

If ‘Conspiracy Theory’ has replaced religion in the new age, then the method for spreading it’s gospels is the Internet.

Gone are the times where printed medium was all-powerful, where beliefs that were counter to the mainstream would spread at a snail-like pace, if at all, via ‘sensationalist’ magazines or underground publications – or simply passed by word to mouth to other like thinking individuals.

Nowadays, a variant thought, an unsubstantiated rumour or the smallest snippet of malicious gossip from anyone with access to the World Wide Web – can circumnavigate the entire planet in seconds.

Dissemination of information, however untrue, however malicious, however dangerous and damaging it happens to be, can sidestep every form of censorship put in place by governments or regimes, or even multinational companies with a myriad of secrets.

It is a place also, where the truth can finally emerge from the darkness and be allowed to stand in the light.

However, the Internet is also a cacophony of fools.

A place where everybody’s opinions are free to be aired and are viewed as being of equal merit – an ever-expanding cyber universe where the words and ideas of the lunatic, the charlatan and the downright evil and malicious can carry the same weight, and gain the support of the most rational, concerned and balanced individual.

In the same way that some people believe every conspiracy that happens to be doing the rounds without question, the sheer insanity of some of these theories, produces an opposite reaction among the more rationally thinking individuals – and has created a climate online where many people now dismiss EVERY conspiracy theory they read about.

A lot of it comes with the fear of being associated with the purveyors of such absolute nonsense, a perfect example being those who have no wish to be seen as believers of the ‘shape-shifting lizard’ theories that David Icke weaves into his narrative.

But then again, there are those who fear NOT buying into the latest conspiracy theory as their herd mentality prevents them from seeing through the associated white noise, propaganda and the seemingly endless numbers of those who promote such theories, however unbelievable they appear to the more rationally minded individuals.

It has now reached a stage where staunch resistance or showing even the slightest hostility to some conspiracy theories is as futile an act, as trying to hold back a tsunami with a broken umbrella.

So what are we left with?

The task of trying to disentangle the crackpot from the logical, evidenced argument, and the sinners from the saints and still have the ability to recognise and ultimately separate, those conspiracy theories that serve to keep you in the dark – and those that try to illuminate the darkened, secret corners where the true evil lurks.

The Outlaw, and those who contribute to this site via the comments, have been aware for many months now, that there has been an organised online campaign to discredit, and attack survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.

We have known since the setting up of the initial CSA inquiry, that there has been a concerted effort to ensure that no genuine and/or credible survivor would be allowed to participate, nor be allowed to present any evidence that may be damaging to the establishment.

“People who falsely claim to represent those who suffered sexual abuse in their childhood, and the aggressive and abusive tactics of the lone-wolf campaigners, together with questionable motives of some lawyers and others who claim to represent the interests of survivors.”

I would however, go further as it is my belief, and is one that is shared by others, especially among those who have been subjected to these online attacks – that there is also a certain demographic which connects each and every one of the perpetrators.

And the common thread that links these people, is one that leads directly to the establishment itself.

A ‘False Flag’ (or black flag) describes covert operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them.

Operations carried out during peace-time by civilian organisations, as well as covert government agencies, may also be called false flag operations if they seek to hide the real organisation behind an operation.

Sometimes the term is used to refer to those acts carried out by “military or security force personnel, which are then blamed on terrorists.”

The term may also refer to those events which governments are cognisant of and able to stop but choose to allow to happen (or “stand down”), as a strategy to entangle or prepare the nation for war. Furthermore, the term “false flag terrorism” may even be used in those instances when violence is carried out by groups or organisations which, whether they know it or not, are being supported or controlled by the “victim” nation.

Some argue that false flags are methods used by deep states as a form of deep politics.

The name “false flag” has its origins in naval warfare where the use of a flag other than the belligerent’s true battle flag as a ruse de guerre, before engaging the enemy, has long been accepted.

Such operations are also accepted in certain circumstances in land warfare, to deceive enemies in similar ways providing that the deception is not perfidious and all such deceptions are discarded before opening fire upon the enemy.

In a quiet suburb of London, sits a complex of buildings known as the Tavistock Center, devoted to the “study” of what is known as “human relations.” From this ob­scure location, an invisible army of social engineers, psychi­atrists, psychoanalysts, psychological warfare experts, and brainwashing technicians have been both created and deployed – and which are directly responsible for creating many of the False Flag outrages that have been carried out throughout the world over the last few decades.

This network was also believed to be behind the mass slaughter of the Bosnian and Croatian peoples in the Balkans.

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The following list of ‘False Flags’ are the ones that the perpetrators have ‘owned up to’.

Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This was known as the “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….”

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland – as a basis for launching the “Winter War” against Finland. Russian president Boris Yeltsin agreed that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War, and Putin.

Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed).

The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950’s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.

The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.

The British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan, admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change.The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security”.

(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred).

They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and other countries.

In 1960, American Senator George Smathers suggested that the U.S. launch “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]“.Official State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals.

As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba.

In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper promoting attacks on nations within the Organization of American States – such as Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely blaming them on Cuba.

The U.S. Department of Defense even suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: “The only area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on Guantanamo.”

The NSA admits that it lied about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war.

A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists.

A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He explained: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”.

The German government admitted that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on.

A Mossad agent says that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist trasmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him “to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC (the African National Congress) by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident”, and framed the ANC for the bombing.

An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings.

An Indonesian fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that “elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked”.

Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya.

According to the Washington Post, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organisation.

The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombing.

As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered seven innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on terror”.

Senior police officials in Genoa, Italy admitted that – in July 2001, at the G8 summit in Genoa – planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer, in order to justify a violent crackdown against protesters.

Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually told to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials. Government officials also confirm that the white House tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a justification for regime change in that country.

Similarly, the U.S. falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo from the defense secretary – as one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq war. Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no connection, Dick Cheney said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties.

Top U.S. government officials now admit that the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction (despite previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials now say that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was not the state which backed the hijackers).

Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”

United Press International reported in June 2005: U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.

Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians.

At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence.

Egyptian politicians admitted that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts in 2011 to try to discredit the protesters.

A Colombian army colonel has admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat.

U.S. soldiers have admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants.

The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Newspaper, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar – recently admitted that the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists.

High-level American sources admitted that the Turkish government – a fellow NATO country – carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government admitted on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.

The former Ukrainian security chief admits that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame others.

Britain’s security services have admitted they Carry out “digital false flag” attacks on targeted people, framing them by writing offensive or unlawful material.… and blaming it on their targets.

As each year passes, more and more first hand witness accounts of historically significant events are being lost.

The last person believed to have served in the Great War for example, passed away in 2012 aged 110, which means that with the death of Florence Green, there is not a single human being now alive, who is able to bear testimony to the true horrors of the First World War.

It has been estimated that within three decades, there will be nobody left who will have witnessed what it was to have served in the Second World War, and their personal accounts and stories will have gone along with them.

Of course the celluloid and paper records will endure, and the ‘Official’ narrative will continue to be taught in schools and studied by the next generation of history students – who will in turn, go on to recite to others what they have learned from those records.

And undoubtably, it will continue in that manner.

However, it is becoming increasingly rare that genuine first hand accounts of events that were deemed as being ‘sensitive’ or ‘not in the public interest’, emerge in any significant numbers.

But when they do, it is vitally important that they are also recorded, preserved for posterity, and made easily available, and presented on a platform that is accessible to anyone.

Like the Internet.

But even the www is subject to censorship to a degree, and popular online reference sources, like WIKIPEDIA for example, are heavily controlled and being continuously monitored for information that may question the ‘Official’ version of any given event.

So unless you are prepared to venture further, into the so-called ‘conspiracy‘ or ‘truth‘ websites, blogs and forums, you will find little deviation from the version that is taught in schools, universities and ‘approved’ websites of course.

For the purpose of this article, I would like to refer to something that can be found on the Imperial War Museum Online Archive, in relation to ‘Antler’, which was part of a series of secretive operations, began in 1953, with ‘Operation Totem’, and was intended to develop greater knowledge and understanding of ‘Fission (Nuclear) Weapons’.

“The information available on the web right now seems to have been watered down and is now very sparse, and what there is can be misleading to say the least.”

The above quote is from someone, who has been looking for answers, particularly in regard to ‘Antler’ and similar operations involving Fission-Based weapons testing, for personal reasons.

His reasons I believe, is that he was there at the time, and now, almost fifty-eight years later, still does not know the whole truth about what was really going on.

He has given his permission to publish his own account on the Outlaw.

A first-hand testimony, and one which also bears little resemblance, apart from the dates and location etc, to the ‘Official’ account.

TONDOR’S STORY….

“Most of us with any personal knowledge of this sort of thing are now gone but what we have witnessed should not be allowed to die with us. The reason why such posts as mine are rare is because most people of our age were brought up in an era of no computers and thereby a lot of us are now known as computer illiterate. I myself never even touched a computer until I was 68 and I still haven’t got much idea about E mails and that’s why I’m posting on here.”

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“It’s a long story but I haven’t as yet got to the bottom of it, and probably never will.

It started way back in 1957 when I was just an 18-year old wet behind the ears young airman travelling on a troop train between Cardington and Liverpool docks.

On our kit bags was information as to our identity, our destinations and the ship on which we would be sailing. In this case it was the S.S. Oxfordshire and its final destination after making drop offs was Hong Kong via the Cape of Good Hope.

The Suez canal was still blocked at the time after the 1956 Suez crisis. Opposite me on the train sat a RAF chief technician and on his kit bag was stencilled the words ‘Operation Antler’.

I asked him what it meant but all he would tell me was that he was going to Australia.

At that time I didn’t even know we had any bases in Australia.

We finally arrived in Hong Kong and that was an eye opener on the first day, but that’s another story. I soon learned that the Far East Air Force was something unusual and strange things were happening.

Amongst our kit was a pair of very expensive sun glasses which we were told were for the extreme sunlight that we would often be working in.

The army had no such glasses.

I had learned earlier on the troop ship via its civilian captain that these sun glasses were made of very special laminated glass, which consisted of three layers of dark glass and between the three layers of glass were two layers of iodine crystals.

This puzzled me.

Naturally I made friends out there one of them being a certain Corporal Walker who came from a RAF family and had been in the service from the age of 15 as an apprentice.

Very often someone we knew would ‘disappear’ and we would later learn that he had been ‘posted’ with the instruction to clear the camp in one hour.

One day my pal corporal Walker just ‘disappeared’ and I was told that he had been sent to Singapore on a training course. I knew this to be a lie because there were no more training courses being carried out there and I said so.

The response I got from above was to “Shut up”.

A month later ‘Whisky’ as corporal Walker was nicknamed, returned to camp but he was a changed and shaken man and to say that he had been in Singapore was not true as he had pale skin.

I took him quietly on one side and asked him where he had been and not to give me any of that crap about Singapore. He looked at me as though in shock and said, “I can’t tell you that pal, but all I will tell you is that I have seen something that no man should ever see.”

Immediately the kit bag with ‘Operation Antler’ on it came to mind and something was starting to form a picture.

At my final camp back in the UK I was on a guard detail and waiting in the billet along with a few others for our two hour ‘stints’. One person amongst us who had his back to me and seemed older and wiser than the others, seemed to be laying the law down and kept mentioning that he had been based in Australia.

But he mentioned nothing of what he was doing there.

This aroused my curiosity and whilst he still had his back to me I shouted “Antler”.

The reaction was immediate and he faced me and replied, “So you were there as well were you?” Still wanting more information I lied, and told him yes but that I was not allowed to say what I did out there.

This he believed and that’s when he blurted out his story which he must have been bursting at the seams for a number of years to tell.

He told me that he was working in an underground bunker within about two miles of the coming nuclear test. Usually in such tropical climates, the working dress order of the day is shoes/boots knee length socks shorts and shirt with sleeves rolled up to just above the elbow. This was known as number four dress.

One day they were told to wear tropical long trousers and shirt with sleeves rolled down and buttoned at the wrist. This was known as number five dress and they were also told to keep their sun glasses handy, which seems strange for someone working below ground.

On that fateful day he told me that a voice came over the tannoy inviting them to go above ground where they could witness a sight that would go down in history and not to forget their glasses.

Along with the others he scrambled above ground but he was wearing number four dress instead of number five as previously ordered.

He then went on to describe what he had witnessed.

“We were stood in full view looking at the target area when an out of this world bright flash occurred which was immediately followed by a wave of heat. Even though I was wearing the glasses I put my hands and arms up to my eyes so as to shield myself from the bright flash. Later, because I was wearing number four dress, my arms and legs swelled up and became bright red and peeled shortly afterwards.”

How much radiation both this man and my pal Whisky took can only be guessed at but the iodine crystals in the glasses would have given them little or no protection. But I have no doubt that both of them got the initial radiation sickness and it could have so easily have been myself who was amongst these human guinea pigs.

I have since seen old film of these experiments where the airmen were placed at various distances from the explosion, to assess the different affects at different distances.

Since those days, a lot of these people have developed cancer and died from cancer of the organs and cancer of the blood. Their children have suffered deformities because of radiation damage to the reproductive organs of the parents or parent.

It’s still not known for certain if service women also took part in these experiments.

But we can be certain that the offspring of these service men, are still being monitored today in the name of ‘Scientific research’.

In the past there has been representation for these people for the purpose of getting compensation for the damage done and the damage that is still being done by these past experiments.

But as usual “All records have been lost.”

I had some information on my files but that seems to have gone missing also.

The information available on the web right now seems to have been watered down and is now very sparse and what there is can be misleading to say the least.

Porton Down keeps popping in my searches and this place although now closed, was once an experimental laboratory for ‘Common cold’ research as we were told.

I remember clearly notices going up in my early training days, asking for volunteers for this ‘common cold’ research but being well advised by the old timers I adopted their attitude of “Volunteer for bugger all” and it served me well.

But it so happened that this ‘Common cold’ research centre was nothing of the sort.

I do believe that it had something to do with the real Operation Antler which involved nuclear tests.”